Blade Runner tops SFX poll

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by MaddogK

So they just let Deckard run off with Rachael (who'se supposedly the only replicant without an expiration date), and the details about the implanted memory of a unicorn are in Deckards file for Gaff to read ?

I don't think the unicorn is referring to Deckard at all, always thought it referred to Rachael since that ending scene when Deckard holding the oragami unicorn has Gaff narrating 'too bad she wont live...', but Gaff doesn't know she wont 'expire' after 4 years.

Considering the DC and FC, the unicorn origami is definitely aimed at Deckard.
That's pretty much the point of the unicorn scene: to tie it with the origami
in the end and have the viewer put 2 + 2 together and figure out Deckard is
a replicant himself.

[MaddogK]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Considering the DC and FC, the unicorn origami is definitely aimed at Deckard.
That's pretty much the point of the unicorn scene: to tie it with the origami
in the end and have the viewer put 2 + 2 together and figure out Deckard is
a replicant himself.

Sadly (or gladly) I read the original P.K.Dick story before the dir cut was released, so the suggestion from the later cuts didn't work on me.

Relevant opinions from those involved:

• Philip K. Dick wrote the character Deckard as a human.[17]
• Hampton Fancher (original screenwriter) has said that he wrote the character Deckard as a human, but wanted the film to suggest the possibility that he may be a replicant. When asked, "Is Deckard a replicant?", Fancher replied, "No. It wasn't like I had a tricky idea about Deckard that way."[18] During a discussion panel with Ridley Scott to discuss Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Fancher again stated that he believes Deckard is human (saying that "[Ridley Scott's] idea is too complex"), but also repeated that he prefers the film to remain ambiguous: "I like asking the question and I like it to be asked but I think it’s nonsense to answer it. That’s not interesting to me." [19]
• Ridley Scott stated in an interview in 2002 that he considers Deckard a replicant.[20][21]
• Harrison Ford considers Deckard to be human. "That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time," Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment. "I thought the audience deserved one human being on screen that they could establish an emotional relationship with. I thought I had won Ridley's agreement to that, but in fact I think he had a little reservation about that. I think he really wanted to have it both ways."[22] (However, in an interview in Wired magazine in 2007, Ridley again states that he believes Deckard is a replicant, and says that Harrison Ford may have given up the idea of Deckard being human.)[23]
• Edward James Olmos (Detective Gaff) explains that Deckard was also a replicant.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner